Rev. Dr. Thomas Nalla is the President of Telugu Baptist Churches in India and also serving as a Senior Pastor of Centenary Baptist Church, Secunderabad, AP. He has done his BD from Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur and MA from Osmania University. He served as a missionary Pastor in North East India and also as Associate Gen Sec of Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches based in Nellore.
Bro. Rajan S. Mathews is the CFO and VP of TelarGo Inc. Prior to Telargo, he served as President of Telephone Systems International, VP and CFO of Call Sciences Inc. Immediately before that, at AT&T Wireless, he held a number of executive leadership positions, including Divisional CFO, Corporate Controller, President and CEO of one if its largest joint ventures (in India, Birla-AT&T now IDEA). He is a CPA from the State of New Jersey. He lives with his wife Grace and daughters Kavitha and Nithya in Princeton, NJ.
Dr. Joshi Jayaprakash is the Executive Director of the Research Institute for Culture and Contemporary Studies. He is currently occupied in conducting research and publishing. He is the author of ‘Insane Insights for Concerned Christians’. Dr. Joshi holds a Ph.D from Fuller Graduate School. Dr. Joshi lives in Pasadena, California and is the father of two children, Steven (24) and Sheena (17).
Rev. Anna Thomas is the Pastor of Livingston United Methodist Church in Livingston, NJ. She has joined us in worship today with her husband Sushil Bhujbal who is a accomplished church musician and their 61/2 yr old son Joshua. She has been in ministry as a pastor for past 10 yrs.
Dr. Augustine Pagolu teaches Old Testament at the Biblical Graduate School of Theology in Singapore. He holds the Ph.D in Old Testament from Oxford, UK. Dr.Pagolu has taught in Seminaries in India and abroad. He is the author of ‘How to Study the Bible from an Asian Perspective’. He lives in Singapore with his wife Sumathi and two children Adarsh and Amitha.
Rev. Dr. David K. Ravinder is the Senior Pastor of the Whitehouse United Methodist Church in Whitehouse, NJ. He is an ordained Elder in the Greater NJ Annual Conference. Following the completion of his Ph.D from Princeton Seminary, Dr. Ravinder started his pastoral ministry in 1985 having served churches in Warren, Bridgewater, Berkeley Heights, and Roselle Park. Since 1997 he has served as the Hon. Senior Pastor of the United Evangelical Christian Fellowship (UECF). He has taught courses in Counseling in India, Singapore and USA.